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The town of Nördlingen, Germany was constructed in the 9th Century AD, and the settlers didn’t realize the stone they were using was embedded with millions of tiny diamonds, in a concentration seen nowhere else in the world. It was from an asteroid strike 15 million years ago that this became Germany’s "diamond-clad town."From the BBC: "With no knowledge that the rock, called suevite, was peppered with diamonds, the buildings were made almost entirely with the gem-laden stone – making Nördlingen like no other town on Earth.“Everything within the city wall is made from that asteroid impact rock,” said Nördlingen resident Roswitha Feil." Local geologists estimate that the town walls and buildings contained approximately 72,000 tons of diamonds! So cool, do any of you live near this town? #diamonds #strangehistory #germany #Nördlingen #BBC #asteroid